Monday, February 8, 2010

February 8, 2010-Que Tal

hey everyone,
thanks a bunch for your emails this week. i´m glad to say that we haven´t had any new adventures with getting robbed this week, so we´re all good there hahah. its been a pretty good week though. more than anything, we´ve been working really hard with javier and viviana. its actually a really cool story because the other day we were talking to them. we had just talked to them about the word of wisdom because the day before during church they had talked alot about that. so we were teaching them that and javier started to tell us that after he heard about the word of wisdom, he decided that he wasn´t going to drink anymore. he told us that he never really drake that much before, but he decided to give it up all together. it was pretty cool to hear because he gave up drinking before we even taught him about it. since then we´ve taught them every other lesson and they´ve even had their baptismal interviews already. they are all good to go for the baptism this saturday and are super excited.
another cool story with javier and viviana was that during one of the lessons, we talked about the difference between a church and a temple. i think that came up during church one time, so javier and viviana wanted to know more about temples. i just remember telling them really fast that in a temple, we can be married for time and all eternity. then we just kept talking about something else. but a couple days ago, we were in another lesson with them and they told us that in a year, they want to get married in the temple. it was such an awesome thing to hear. its also cool because if the temple here in buenos aires opens up again before i leave, i might be able to go with them. it was seriously just something that amazed me because they´ve only known the church for like 3 or 4 weeks. but they already have all these goals like being married in the temple and stuff like that.
it was cool because we actually just went to the beach today. its the first time that i´ve seen the beach in like 8 months. gosh it was so tight! it was freakin dirty looking water (yeah argentina doesn´t keep their water that clean), but it was still awesome. in one of the areas close to ours, you can take a boat out from this river and it opens up and heads out to the ocean. so we decided to do that earlier today and it was way cool. we went to this one island and walked around until we found this really cool beach. of course we couldn´t go in hahah...i´m not trucho (disobedient) don´t worry. but it was still cool to just hang out there for a while. so yeah, that was something new that i´ve never done for p-day before.
mom, thanks for all the news going on back at home. i´ll bet that its been a bummer with the rain the last couple days. but if it makes you feel any better, it rained the last 2 days here too. its pretty lame because it´ll be hot but its raining. i never want to wear a sweatshirt because you´ll be too hot at the same time hahah. but today is a nice day so hopefully it doesn´t rain again. dad, thanks for the email also. i´m actually alright with the saints winning the super bowl. i probably would have been rooting for them if i was home. i don´t really have a problem with brees winning a ring but that just means that rivers has to win us one next year. thats pretty lame with ladainian talking about leaving next year though. no one wants to see lt in another uniform. dude didn´t we say that it would be my last time that i saw lt in a chargers uniform?! i think that was something that sean and i used to joke about. dang it...sean, dude you have to send me like a dvd or something with some ¨angels¨ if you know what i mean. that would be so tight, just like in the background or something. but you better tell me about that next week. oh yeah and i thought that you might like to know that i still haven´t seen any ¨blue birds¨ here in argentina hahah. its been a while since you´ve asked so i thought that you might wanna know haha. paige, thats a bummer that you weren´t able to see the end of that movie. i´m down with seeing it when i´m back too if its like ¨the notebook¨ haha (just for the record i thought the notebook was a good movie until the ending). but yeah i´m thinkin that we´ll have ¨a few¨ movies to see once i´m back. be sure to tell rachel that i say hi. bridg, it sounds like you and the fam are definately going to have to do some camping this weekend. that would be so much fun! i hope that you all have fun on your vacation. cause you asked, there are 2 dogs left here in my pension (plus negrito and another ugly white dog that annoys me like crazy hahah).
well i think that thats about it for now...mortensen and i are hoping to stay together for at least one more transfer. when we had interviews with president the other day, he could tell that we wanted to stay together again and he was like, ¨i´ll try to keep you together, but no promises¨ hahah. so we´ll see what happens. i know that whether i stay here or go, whether i´m with mortensen or some other comp, the Lord is with us. as long as we keep working hard, the Lord will protect us and help us to find the people who need the gospel in the lives at this time. thank you all for all that you do for me. i love you. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall

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